In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or is he, too a corrupt villain looking to gain wealth from the oppressed people? From the pen of famed samurai author Yamamoto Shugoro, this exciting tale turns the tables on the standard samurai story with a unique lead character previously portrayed in Ichikawa Kon’s “Dora Heita.”

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

In 19th century Shanghai, a young boy Ah Lang sneaks into the Navy Shipyard and unwittingly becomes ...

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, vetera...

After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trai...

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physical...

Young Olga Ahrendt almost succeeded in attempting suicide. She had thrown herself in front of a tram...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
A boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the...

An elderly bell maker reminisces about his life filled with tragedy.

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...